Contributors
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Diya M. Abdo is an assistant professor of English at Guilford College in North Carolina. She has published articles in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Eugene O’Neill Review, Image and Narrative, Life Writing (forthcoming), and the Pacific, Ancient, and Modern Language Association’s Pacific Coast Philology, as well as in collections on Anglophone Arab writers and women writers. Her research focuses on Arab women writers, Islamic feminism, autobiography, and postcolonial translation.
Tricia Currans-Sheehan teaches English and writing at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, and is the editor of The Briar Cliff Review. She has published stories in Virginia Quarterly Review, Connecticut Review, South Dakota Review, Fiction, Calyx, Wisconsin Review, and many other journals. Her collection of stories, The Egg Lady and Other Neighbors, won The Headwaters Literary Competition sponsored by New Rivers Press. The River Road, a novel in stories, was released from New Rivers Press in November 2008.
Laura Heyman is an artist and curator based in Syracuse, New York. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). Her work has been exhibited at Senko Studio, Viborg, Denmark; Deutsch Polen Institute, Darmstadt, Germany; and Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, California. She has curated exhibitions at Milk Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, and is currently an assistant professor of photography in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University.
Sabrina Joseph is currently assistant professor of history in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in Dubai (UAE). She completed her PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2005. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of the Middle East, representations [End Page 199] of Islam and Muslim societies, comparative history, women’s land and property rights under Islamic law, and the legal status of Christians and peasants in the Ottoman Empire. Among her most recent publications is a comparative article on peasants and law in early modern France and Ottoman Syria published in Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture (2007). She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the Islamic law governing land tenure relations in Ottoman Syria and legal notions of private versus public good and social and economic justice vis-à-vis peasants.
Karen An-Hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008) and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004) and winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award. She lives and teaches in southern California, where she is a novice harpist.
Patricia O’Neill teaches English at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is author of Robert Browning and Twentieth-Century Criticism (Camden House, 1995) and editor of the Broadview Press edition of Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm. This essay is taken from a manuscript entitled Fiction, Field Notes, and Victorian Egyptology: The Works of Amelia B. Edwards.
Rhonda Poynter is widowed and has worked as a freelance writer for upwards of twenty years. Her work has appeared in more than seven hundred magazines, anthologies, and journals, and she has published one book and many chap-books. She lives in California with her nineteen-year-old son, Gannon Blue, who is (as she tends to say again and again), because of his autism and his tendency to speak seldom, “the silence that is the starry sky.” (Wordsworth). She has just recently completed a full poetry collection, The Night Café. Its title poem appears in this issue of Frontiers.
Carisa R. Showden received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently an assistant professor of political science and a member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s coordinating council at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her current book project, tentatively titled Becoming Agents: Politics, Feminism, and Freedom, is under contract at the University of Minnesota Press.
Kendra B. Stewart is associate professor and director of the Master of Public Administration Program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Her research interests include state government reorganization, non-profit networks, homeland security, and women in politics. Before assuming her current position, Professor Stewart was a faculty member at Eastern...
